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Meaning of "muddleheadedness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MUDDLEHEADEDNESS

muddleheadedness  [ˌmʌdəlˈhɛdɪdnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUDDLEHEADEDNESS

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adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Muddleheadedness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MUDDLEHEADEDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of muddleheadedness in the English dictionary

The definition of muddleheadedness in the dictionary is the quality or state of being mentally confused or vague.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUDDLEHEADEDNESS


bigheadedness
ˌbɪɡˈhɛdɪdnəs
blockheadedness
ˌblɒkˈhɛdɪdnəs
boundedness
ˈbaʊndɪdnəs
crowdedness
ˈkraʊdɪdnəs
dunderheadedness
ˈdʌndəˌhɛdɪdnəs
fatheadedness
ˌfætˈhɛdɪdnəs
heavy-handedness
ˌhevɪˈhændɪdnəs
high-handedness
ˌhaɪˈhændɪdnəs
hot-headedness
ˌhɒtˈhɛdɪdnəs
left-handedness
ˌlɛftˈhændɪdnəs
level-headedness
ˌlɛvəlˈhɛdɪdnəs
light-headedness
ˌlaɪtˈhɛdɪdnəs
long-headedness
ˌlɒŋˈhɛdɪdnəs
one-sidedness
ˌwʌnˈsaɪdɪdnəs
pinheadedness
ˈpɪnˌhɛdɪdnəs
roundheadedness
ˌraʊndˈhɛdɪdnəs
soft-headedness
ˌsɒftˈhɛdɪdnəs
thickheadedness
ˌθɪkˈhɛdɪdnəs
woodenheadedness
ˈwʊdənˌhɛdɪdnəs
wrong-headedness
ˌrɒŋˈhɛdɪdnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUDDLEHEADEDNESS

muddies
muddiest
muddily
muddiness
mudding
muddle
muddle along
muddle through
muddle-up
muddled
muddledness
muddlehead
muddleheaded
muddleheadedly
muddlement
muddler
muddling
muddlingly
muddly
muddy

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUDDLEHEADEDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of muddleheadedness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «muddleheadedness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUDDLEHEADEDNESS

Find out the translation of muddleheadedness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of muddleheadedness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «muddleheadedness» in English.

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憨头憨脑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

muddleheadedness
570 millions of speakers

English

muddleheadedness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

muddleheadedness
380 millions of speakers
ar

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muddleheadedness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

muddleheadedness
278 millions of speakers

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muddleheadedness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

muddleheadedness
260 millions of speakers

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muddleheadedness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Muddleheadedness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

muddleheadedness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

muddleheadedness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

muddleheadedness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Muddleheadedness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

muddleheadedness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

muddleheadedness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोंधळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

muddleheadedness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

muddleheadedness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

muddleheadedness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

muddleheadedness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

muddleheadedness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

muddleheadedness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

muddleheadedness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

muddleheadedness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fluer i huet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of muddleheadedness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUDDLEHEADEDNESS»

The term «muddleheadedness» is used very little and occupies the 154.699 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUDDLEHEADEDNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about muddleheadedness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUDDLEHEADEDNESS»

Discover the use of muddleheadedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to muddleheadedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with ...
Sub specie aeternitatis, it hardly pays to subdivide muddleheadedness into different categories arising from different social and historical circumstances. An attempted taxonomy implies ingratitude toward the philosophers and poets who have ...
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, 2011
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Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from ...
enemy among us — our people's muddleheadedness. So to liquidate wrecking, we must eliminate muddleheadedness in our ranks." Foreign observers and subsequent scholars have seen the plot as a product of Stalin's final paranoia. a  ...
Jeffrey Brooks, 2000
3
The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to ...
A major point is that muddleheadedness has throughout history been a much more potent force than malevolence or nobility as it “. . . blunts our wisdom, misdirects our compassion, clouds whatever insights into the human condition we ...
Helmuth Nyborg, 2003
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The Thought Remolding Campaign of the Chinese Communist ...
This should not be viewed as a mere coincidence. This sort of expression, “better off muddleheaded,” is nothing other than cynicism. It is only after switching from a state of intelligence to a condition of muddleheadedness that you can say you ...
Hu Ping, Philip F. Williams, Yenna Wu, 2012
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The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political ...
®muddleheadedness ̄. isa condition precedent to independent thought. That is certainly my experience. It was because Ididnot remember the answersthat to others may have been obvious that I was often forced tothink outa solutionto a ...
F.A. Hayek, 2005
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Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking with 101 Ways to Reason ...
Dumbth (pron. dum-th) adj: a tendency toward muddleheadedness, or willful stupidity appearing in all segments of American life.Updated, expanded with 20 new ways to think better, and highlighted with a new introduction, this is Steve Allen ...
Steve Allen
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Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of ...
You surely have heard about that simple wise man of old who was so artful in asking questions.46 This question may very well sound like the kind intended to put one in an awkward position, to expose the muddleheadedness of the person  ...
Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, 1997
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Legal Studies as Cultural Studies: A Reader in (Post)Modern ...
... for all its preaching against mandarinism, has a mandarin purpose, and that, for all its assault on the muddleheadedness of the despised liberals, it is trapped by the muddleheadedness of its own point of view. Kelman's Introduction invites a ...
Jerry Leonard, 1995
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Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Seminal headaches — as I would call them — have ceased since 50; the accumulation only produces muddleheadedness. But I have not suffered accumulation over ten to at most twelve days. The quantity of semen is also less. The sensibility ...
Havelock Ellis
10
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other ...
... which are inseparable from muddleheadedness and incoherence, which indeed equal muddleheadedness and incoherence, just as in those "public service" advertisements about America the special virtues of our tradition turn out to reside ...
Robert Warshow, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUDDLEHEADEDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term muddleheadedness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tom Friedman says Reagan had it easy compared to Obama
... be a greater contrast with the failure and muddleheadedness of Obama. No amount of spin from the likes of Tom Friedman can disguise that. «American Thinker, Sep 14»
2
Putin?s Useful (British) Idiots
But there has long been a certain muddleheadedness about totalitarianism on both the left and the right in Britain, with the most obvious ... «Daily Beast, Aug 14»
3
Broyard's Daughter Responds to Philip Roth
Like most every other novelist I know, once I had what Henry James called “the germ”—in this case, Mel Tumin's story of muddleheadedness at ... «New York Observer, Sep 12»
4
An Open Letter to Wikipedia
Like most every other novelist I know, once I had what Henry James called “the germ”—in this case, Mel Tumin's story of muddleheadedness at ... «New Yorker, Sep 12»
5
Cameron can't rid himself of the disloyal Clegg. So what good will a …
... his political and economic muddleheadedness. Even worse, he is being pressed to add another Lib Dem in the person of Laws the expenses ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12»
6
How Soon Is Now? Extract: The Rise Of Blast First
We don't want to be a party to their muddleheadedness.'" Smith relished the air of provocation starting to form around Blast First and the ... «The Quietus, Apr 12»
7
Still contentious, after all these years
Here the dialogue is perhaps meant to critique Northern California post-hippie muddleheadedness, but it's troublingly portentous even so, and ... «Boston Globe, Jul 09»
8
Obama #1 In Gates and Jobs Households, Donation-Wise
It has been part of the camouflage of leftist movements in this country, helped by the muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, ... «Gizmodo.com, Jan 08»
9
District Attorney Keyes Engages in Tiff With Publisher of LA Times
“If by this device Harry Chandler sought to indicate Record inconsistency he has proven ONLY HIS OWN MUDDLEHEADEDNESS. The Record ... «Metropolitan News-Enterprise, Aug 07»
10
Alluring subject can't support 'Villa'
... pretension, labored vulgarity, awkward construction, and general muddleheadedness. It is painful to respond so negatively to a new work by ... «Boston Globe, Jul 07»

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« EDUCALINGO. Muddleheadedness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/muddleheadedness>. Apr 2024 ».
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